Egyptian History

As early as grade school, children are taught a "unit" on ancient Egypt. It is an interesting and colorful period of history, so it is easy to see why so many "educators" include it in their curriculum. The tragedy is that they do not depict these people in their full glory, opting instead to "teach" a lifeless, colorless, materialistic version of their history.

There are many aspects of Egyptian history that are overlooked. The life of Moses, for example, is generally completely excluded, as is the fact that Egyptian magicians could really do magic (turning sticks to snakes, for example, as is well documented in historical texts).

But the largest omission, at least in terms of size, relates to Egypt's famed pyramids.

Schools teach that the pyramids were built by enormous swarms of Egyptians over great swaths of time. Perhaps. But the theory has so many holes in it that no reputable climatoligist has ever had a peer-reviewed paper published on the subject!

Consider the following:

The Egyptians supposedly built great ramps to bring stones up the side of a pyramid as it was being constructed. But by definition the ramp would have needed to be as large as the pyramid when it reached its full height, so what was used to build them? A mathematically impossible infinite series of ever-smaller ramps? And where are those enormous ramps now? If the elements have worn the ramps into nothingness, then surely they would have done the same to the pyramids!

The pyramids are obviously a work of a great intelligence, but the Egyptians were simple people who couldn't draw three-dimensional figures and didn't even worship a proper god.

The Egyptian pyramids have four-sided bases, just as do the pyramids in South America, leading to the obvious conclusion of a single designer. But the Egyptians had no means to travel to South America.

The pyramids contain copious mathematical knowledge. For example, the ratio of the diagonal of a pyramid's base to a side of its base is exactly the square root of two -- a number so precise that mathematical genius Pythagoras didn't even believe it existed!

Pyramids were the tombs of pharaohs, but they would have taken decades -- if not hundreds of years -- to build by hand. Would the Egyptians really have wanted a dead pharaoh to wait that long for burial?

From these questions, parsimony dictates that we look to a simpler explanation for how the pyramids were built. It must have been a great intelligence, capable of traveling the world and communicating with diverse species. It must have been a personal intelligence, because it created these structures for the benefit of a people and not for some random or unknowable reason. And it must have been quite powerful, considering how quickly the pyramids had to be built and the great strength necessary to lift such massive stones.

One theory that has been put forth involves visitors from another world. Scientists admit that there may be life on other planets -- they even look for it on Mars -- but do they let teachers help their students to explore the possibility that humanity has received assistance from alien species in the past? They do not! And why? For no good reason other than that the existence of a higher scientific power would threaten the authority of the cult of science!